I just planted some of my "Bits and pieces" in the garden today, and now I'm enjoying a thunderstorm that took out the town's electricity. Or maybe it was the military, who knows. But my bet is on the thunderstorm, it's awesome and big and so much rain and lighting and, well, thunder. The rain is perfect for my recently planted crops and bits.
Today, it was onions. I changed the system a little, not putting them into dirt, but into an old plastic container with lid - that way, they're always moist and the roots go great. You just have to wash them once a day. It seems to work a lot better than putting them into my improvised tin containers full of dirt.
But I've talked about these enough now. A week ago, I went up on the rooftop garden to clean up a little. I had neglected it, and since it's all pots, it needs more care than the regular garden that just keeps growing no matter what. One of the things that I planted there is my favorite crop - peas.
Yes, ironic, as the QOTW is titled "Easy Peasy". But I've had nothing but good experiences with them. The variety that I have (I just stuck some fresh ones that were germinating into the ground and voilà!) is very resilient and grows everywhere - even in my pots. So, I made space for them.
I have no idea how much space they need, so I just put 9 peas in each of the containers that I emptied. I know they like to climb, so I'll put some sticks and leftover wire in there, too. We'll see what happens! Until now, it's going really good, they're already sticking their heads out after only one week in the dirt.
Lily and I love to harvest these peas when they're very young, and munch them directly. They're very sweet then (for a vegetable), and just delicious. If you start gardening, peas, onion stumps and herbs. Herbs almost never die. Almost.
This was oregano. Now, it's more a wasteland. To be fair, I only planted a little branch, and it took over the bucket very quickly, and gave nice oregano for a while. I harvested quite a bit. Maybe it's just old now. In this bucket you can also see the absolute easiest crop to grow - the one you didn't expect.
It happens so many times to me that suddenly, something pops up somewhere. Just random, out of nowhere. In this case, it's Amaranth. I guess that it fell into the compost one day or something, but it keeps shooting out of nowhere. Same goes for potatoes.
The light came back on. At least here. Not at the bakery, yet, which worries me, as the boys came in early for a huge production for tomorrow. I hope it comes back quickly. The situation with the strike is dire enough, losing one of the two nights of business left? Not good.
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Have you ever made oregano pesto? I have so much oregano, I certainly have! It self seeds everywhere (you know I love self seeding). I'm with you though, I NEVER have luck with peas - ever! Broad beans (fava beans) are easy, and snow peas (mange tout) but peas, nup.
Fava beans are very common here, so are lupin beans. And they're pretty.
I never made oregano pesto, the taste is very intense - but there is a sauce called "chimichurri" here that is basically a load of oregano, garlic and chili, all crushed together with oil. That's really good stuff.
As this patch of oregano was dying, I took some away and planted it in another pot. Who knows. Maybe it'll keep growing. In the real garden there are many herbs, and also a few oregano plants. But it's not doing thaaaat well, just growing here and there a little.
I make chimichurri! I love it.
The way I doy pesto is to mellow it a bit with kale, and add whatever nuts or seeds I have, olive oil and garlic, some fetta or Parmesan maybe. So it softens the oregano.
Mixing with kale is an interesting idea. I use lupine beans instead of the cheese and nuts, it's great stuff and readily available here. If my plants come back in an epic way, I'll try that pesto! Thank you for the idea!
I've always liked self seeding type of plants, a little less work to do around the garden. I would definitely want to have peas when I get more serious with gardening, pot plants have been hard to manage for me too lol, so much maintenance work involved.
Well, there are different approaches. Mine is obviously "let's see what happens...", that is not much maintenance, but doesn't bear the best results. Or at least none to expect.
I took an onion out of my inside "onion bowl" that sits near the microwave, because it was shooting off into a spring onion. I literally threw it into the garden, didn't bury it or NOTHING, and I've got so much spring onion flowering at the moment that I feel like I am going to be eating spring onion until the day that I die.
Our mulberry tree is coming along nicely, I can see buds on the dwarf mandarin, and my chillis somehow remain perenial. One that I thought was going to die survived, and one is dead, but still covered in chillis. :P
I HAVE TOO MANY CHILLIS.
Onions can do that! They're very resourceful in their propagation. I collected many seeds from my springs, but they always just grow a little and then die. Using the stumps works better, for now.
I am currently growing a new set of chili plants, hoping to replace the older ones that are not in good shape anymore. But I don't really know where to put them. But I'll find space, or make space.
I sometimes think I'm wasting my time with all this gardening. I find so much stuff self seeding that I could probably sit in a deck chair all summer and still harvest just s much food at the end of it:)
Might be! Not sure how Ireland works, probably different than Ecuador. A little. Also, you won't be able to choose what you want to eat, but can just get what nature chooses for you. Your style is definitely more rewarding that way :-D
Hmm, I think I'll have to think it out again!
Or just do, you know, live in the moment, duuuude, yolo, you know...
YOLO? I don’t think so. I’m more inclined to believe we live many lives, each time in different avatars. There's no escape!:)
Life will always find a way
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your way of growing onions is new to me... I gave up growing onion because they always rot.. 🤣 my bad, I am not a good garener.. but yours is a better idea.. I need to try this.. thanks for sharing.. I genuinely appreciate it..
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I still lose quite a few of them, or at least I think I will. This is the first round of growing the root that way. But I'm confident!
Using plastic containers and rooftop pots is such a smart idea! Its great to hear how well your peas are growing too. The thunderstorm sounds both powerful and perfectly timed tow after your new crops. Cant wait to see how your garden continue to thrive!
It just grows and grows constantly... Always fun to watch!